JMuskovitz

Sadly, the best thing about the shirt is the completely obscure reference to two of my hometowns. The design is disappointing, though. If Douglas Adams were still with us, he'd just shake his head, and then have the BBC sue the hell out of you.

I didn't mean to take way from the artist here. Thanks for sharing the link to the original sub. I'm not surprised Gabriel was the first. I can only imagine the time that he put into this from concept to completion.

windstirrer

I love this shirt so much, but I find myself searching and scouring the numbers for a pot of petunias!! Where are the petunias falling from the sky!! Where are the suspiciously unsuprised petunias!And there is your pointlessly offended post of the day.

windstirrer

The valedictorian at the local school in my town this year finished off his speech by saying farewell with a nerdtastic set of references:
"Live long and prosper, so long and thanks for all the fish, and may be the odds be ever in your favor." A little something for everybody! Awesome graduation speech!!

bounty42

Base13 - Where 9x6=42. FWIW, Addams denies that he intended this to be so obvious, and that it's pure happenstance that it works out at all.

To honor Slydon's "Pet Theory" thread, here's another cool co-inky-dink, 42 base13 is best expressed as a deck of playing cards, there being 4 suits of 13 cards, and 2 jokers. Poker cards were used in the Deadlands RPG to make deals with the loa to gain magical powers. In Deadlands: Hell on Earth, it was revealed that when the loa won a hand of poker, they used the power to fuel the 4 horsemen, who later reclaimed the world. So in that setting too the earth was destroyed by the answer and question, just in different forms.

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kelleypenic

It isn't a "fish shirt" it is a Hitch Hikers Guide shirt and if you read it you will know the dolphins are leaving the planet and the improbability drive turned a bowl of petunias into a whale... wow, I need to get out more.

jthroop

Although the question "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" on the back of the shirt would have completed the picture, perhaps that would have taken away the mystery. I'm definitely in although it is getting to the point that I need a separate closet to house my woot! shirts. I don't want to go totally confessional, but their number definitely exceeds this universal answer.

auctionsaver

badboypolar wrote:I almost bought it but then I realized there is no reference for Marvin. 42 cannot be achieved without Marvin.

+1

This was almost an instant buy for me, but then I hesitated after actually looking at the pictures. Here is what turned me off of buying it:

Lack of Marvin the robot

The object look like they could have been better drawn.

Too much and too little. There is too much going on which would be fine if they were all great references. Unfortunately, some are a stretch. for example, am I to assume the Mac looking computer is Deep Thought?

Without a clearly more "commercial" looking collection of pieces, this might be mistaken for a Jackie Robinson moniker because his number is worn on every jersey on Jackie Robinson Day. That is why the art is SOOOO critical.

kmerwin

ciaralee

Too much and too little. There is too much going on which would be fine if they were all great references. Unfortunately, some are a stretch. for example, am I to assume the Mac looking computer is Deep Thought?

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